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7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Tonga; no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi
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At 6:02 a.m. on Wednesday, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the Tonga Islands at a depth of 132 miles.
Based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi, according to the National Weather Services’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.
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